Your Social Media Portrayal

Bradley Jay Fills In On NightSide

Is it dishonest to post an old picture of yourself as a social media profile picture? On the one hand people who do say it's dishonest argue it misrepresents who you are and that you are not being fully truthful. Those who say no argue you should be able to post whatever you want and not face scrutiny. What do you think?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBS Boston's news radio.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Good evening. If you just joined us, I'm Braday Jay
for Dan tonight and about ten o'clock, Boston Globe music
writer Jim Sullivan joins us to regale us with forty
five years of rock chats and rants. He's got a
book and he's had some wonderful experiences and he's going
to share some of them great stories. Also, I'd be

(00:28):
really curious when we get there at ten o'clock to
hear about maybe one of your brushes with rock and
roll greatness. Do you ever meet anybody? Did you meet
your did you meet your idol? Did you regret it?
Was it a good experience? You know they say don't
never meet your idols. There's something to that actually, or
maybe you had a good experience. But that's what we'll

(00:49):
be doing from from ten and maybe ten on. In
the meantime, it's time to call an audible. I had
a topic, but in view this big news event like
the government opening up, I probably better allow that as well.
So probably the thing to do is just call it

(01:09):
open lines and we can con There was definitely momentum
on the last topic where we had a compelling hour
talking about the war against pedestrians, and in a specific way,
we talked to Lynn Forrester, who was struck down quite
literally by a knee bike, med flighted to Mass General

(01:30):
and is recovering from multiple, multiple serious injuries. We hope
she's recovering. We don't even know that. And I am
I am really, and I guess and I hate to
use the word activist because it's got a lot of
baggage goes with it, but I am working hard to
regulate micromobility vehicles, anything with power and a couple of wheels.

(01:57):
To be clear, I want gas powered motorcycles and fast
e bikes out of bike lanes so they can be
used by oh, I don't know, bicycles. And I want
the stand up scooters East scooters which can go thirty
miles an hour, and bicycles, regular bles, bicycles off sidewalks. So,

(02:20):
in case you haven't heard, we get back to government shutdown.
House past funding bill to end record long government shutdown.
It's look alike. The President will sign it. I'm guessing yeah,
maybe nine forty five, but everything's delayed a little bit

(02:40):
nine fifty. We're gonna well, we'll let you know that
that's what we do. And it was the longest shutdown
in history. Going to the President's office, the vote was
if I I recollect to twenty two on the AA

(03:02):
and two o nine on the nay. And you may say,
Bradley Jay, what do you think? All right, I'll tell
you just can't have a government shutdown. It's not the
time or place to get what you need. It's just wrong.
You can't hold us house as, you can't shut down airports,

(03:22):
you can't not pay workers, and I don't think you
should be taking advantage of advantage of it to fire
a bunch of people. So you just can't have it.
You just got to stop it. And whatever you hope
to accomplish by hanging in, you got it. You've got
to try to do it a different way. I myself,

(03:44):
healthcare is high on my list. Maybe it's because I'm
it's my age, but I hate to see health care
taken away. And I can't believe. I'm sort of surprise
it's not more of a an issue, you know, a
thing for the right. I would think that they would

(04:05):
be more into and to keep keeping health care affordable.
But Hey, what do I know? So if you're into
mentioning that, I certainly give you the opportunity to weigh
in on that. I am curious was anybody affected by it?
I mean that does matter. If no one was affected
by it, then who cares if it's shut down or not?

(04:26):
But there a shutdown inserts its long, hairy tentacles deep
underneath where we even realize it goes. So, yay, it's over.
What will the fallout be? I will ask you this.
It's been asked before, but now that it's over, I
guess it's appropriate to ask it again. Who's who's the

(04:46):
culpritten this, who's the heavy? Who's the bad person? A
bad entity in the government shutdown? And of course six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty. But you may be burned out talking about that.
And you've heard nothing about that on the news, nothing
but that on national news for the longest time. You
could definitely be burned out on it. But the floor

(05:11):
is open to you if you want to talk up,
you know, weigh in on them. As far as the
first hour, a compelling hour, extremely compelling hour, and if
you don't mind, I think probably an effective audio letter
that you can send to your legislator. I get it.

(05:32):
It's a hassle to write a letter to your town,
your town meeting members, or your town whatever you call
your town officials. Different towns have different names, and it's
difficult and who do you send it to, etc. About
I did my part. I gave you an audio letter

(05:54):
in that first hour that you can send. You can
take the podcast of that hour and set to everyone
who makes decisions in your town. Most towns have transportation
boards or transportation committees. Find out everyone on that committee,
find their email it's listed, and send that hour to them.

(06:16):
It will be probably more effective than any letter you
could write because it has a personal, human story of
someone who lives among us and had no idea that
their life would be almost over. And it is probably
forever altered or maybe forever altered, as she was struck

(06:38):
down by an e bike. So Rob, what is it?
It's nightside on demand, right, that's what they google? Is
that simple? My friends, google nightside on demand, keep that
link there and then go to your town and for
once in your life, go in there, take the time

(06:59):
to find the emails and send it out. As a
matter of fact, you may want to create a Gmail
list or whatever email server you use, so you have
those emails on tap for whatever you want to complain
about or whatever. But again, in a town, in a

(07:20):
state that requires you know, it's kind of legally paternalistic.
It's your dad, this state, dad says. Where a seat belt?
Dad says, well, a child must have an approved car
seat and operated in an approved way. And now dad

(07:40):
needs to say hey, And this is the concise version again,
gas powered motor scooters and fast e bikes out of
bike lanes, bicycles and stand up motor scooters off of sidewalks,
all powered micromobility registered, and I suppose you might as

(08:02):
well register the regular bicycles. Why not? What's the beef
with that? And all powered vehicles must in order to
operate one and have the registration, you must have proof
of insurance. It's not that hard, and it's really really serious.
Recent fatality in Copley Square, the situation down in Harwich.

(08:28):
I read a h I read all kinds of these
disasters that are happening all over the country. Poor man
down in Pennsylvania. Something a little more. I won't go
into it now, but that is it's a real real

(08:49):
immediate danger. And again we hear about the war on Christmas. Well,
now it's a war on pedestrians. So much money has
gone to placate the bicycle lobby with good reason. You
know there are reasons. There are benefits to getting cars
off the road. There are benefits to cyclists not dying.

(09:15):
Oh yes, and one other thing I forgot to mention
on this. Those of you who and there are many
of you, are quick to say enforcement is impossible, Enforcement
costs too much money. No it doesn't, not too much
for what it will give you. It's a real thing. Now,

(09:36):
it's not just some small detail. It's going to require enforcement.
It is dangerous for you to walk your dog, walk
with your mother, your child out and crossroads with and
you've all seen it, especially in an urban area. Not

(09:57):
only the danger and the speed and the power of
the e bikes and the increased use of gasoline powered
delivery scooters using bike lanes, but the manner and the
disregard for the law that we all see. It has
to stop. There is this, in addition to really codifying

(10:21):
things much better than they are now and then distributing
the new laws. While it is maybe beyond some town's
ability to constantly enforce. As you may have learned in
your SSIK one on one class, intermittent reinforcement can work
better than constant reinforcement. Do you remember this class? You

(10:45):
had a bird go peck the that lever and every
time a piece of food comes out a little bird
seed or whatever. And when that's stops, the bird will
keep the behavior up for so long. But if that
reward was intermittent, or that negative reinforcement was intermittent, they

(11:10):
would continue to behavior longer. So intermittent reinforcement is a
real thing. So it's open line six, one, seven, two,
five thirty for the next forty five minutes too, we
get to Jim Sullivan on WBZ.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Great to have you with us here at WBZ Bradley
j for Dan Ray tonight on the Night Side. I'm
calling it open lines now because I want to make
sure you have room to comment on the the the
impending end of the government shutdown. Were you affected in
any way? And who do you blame? Generally, I don't

(11:48):
do these topics, but if not, now, when who do
you blame? Do you blame. Maybe you feel for both sides.
I gotta admit I'm a little erke that they're. There
are some legislators that were what they went. They didn't
work for eight weeks and they got paid.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
I mean.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
What I mean. If they didn't get paid paid, maybe
they'd be a little less likely to tolerate a shutdown
or foment a shutdown. And as I mentioned open lines.
Now here's the original thing that I was going to
run by you before the news on the impending end

(12:29):
of the government shutdown. That is this. It might be
a matter of honesty. Social media stuff matters a lot.
Now before I start, this is a message to what's
the word golden angels. That's a terrible word. Upper demo, Nah,

(12:51):
no good, But you know who I mean, Basically folks
who'd never got on the computer band think, ah, it's
too complicated, all right, it's too late for me to
learn the computer. That's not true. As a matter of fact,
you have to learn the computer. You have to learn

(13:11):
how to use the computer to do serious functions. Now
that you just they make it really difficult to do
in person. If you can do that about them at all,
regardless of your age, you got to put in the
time to be self sufficient and learn how to use
the internet. You just have to. Now, I say that

(13:33):
because what we're talking about until ten o'clock. Well, one
of the things is the following. This is my question, right,
This is how I frame the topic. I'll frame it
as a pole question. It goes like this, true or not?
True or false? Yes or no? It is dishonest to

(13:57):
post a picture of yourself as a social media profile
picture that is old. Is it dishonest to post an
old picture of yourself as a social media profile photo? Yes?
Or no? Is it uncool? Is it acceptable? This is
something you should do. Here are the two sides, the

(14:20):
two schools of thought. We'll take a quick pull six one, seven, two, five,
ten thirty. By the way, yes, here's the yes camp. Yes.
Some would say that you are misrepresenting yourself and that
you're telling people you are ashamed of the way you

(14:40):
currently look, and that this does more social harm for you.
It kind of chews up any any social media equity.
You might have. People say, ummmm, what are you doing?
Why why you have that weird old picture of you?
You don't look like that. They might say it straight

(15:03):
up dishonest, a lie, and can kind of fishing in
the social media Internet use of the word fishing to
gain admires under false pretense. On the other hand, no,
those in the no camp might say, you get to

(15:26):
do whatever you want when it comes to social media.
And if you want to create a wildly inaccurate photo,
I mean image of yourself, a fantasy image, maybe you
want to be Rex Trailer, Bozo the Clown, super rock star, whomever.
You get to do that because it's the wild West

(15:49):
and anything goes. And they might say the new reality
is that you are free to craft any online image
you want. Feel fee to go wild six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty What do you think the up the NO
camp could say, Look, you could be seventy six year

(16:10):
old man and you could create an image as a
fourteen year old boy. Let's not say fourteen. Let's say
twenty year old man, a much younger man. Not for
mifarious purposes except so no, so people thought you weren't
so old. Why not? There are those people that will

(16:33):
say that let's go to Gary and NJ. I have
two and a half minutes for Gary. Let's make sure
you enjoy every minute of it.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
Gary, Hey, oh, hey, anytime you're on I listened to
you for years.

Speaker 4 (16:45):
But anyway, with.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
The social media, I can tell you I'm seventy two.
I've existed fine without it. Oh, and the same thing
with it. Okay, no, and the same thing with the computer.
But my feeling was I can fix just about anything.

(17:06):
I can grow my own food. I still hunt and fish.
I think if things go to hell in a handbag,
I'll be okay, yes.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Gary, But in the meantime, you're causing yourself all kinds
of hassle. How do you.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
Apply we say, all our bills, we pay you all
our bills by check and quite frankly, I am a
cash man in a credit card world. Okay, I don't
have the ATM card.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
How do you buy a plane ticket, I'm guessing you
don't have.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Well I'm not.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
I'm not flying anymore.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
How about hotels, reservations, vacations.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
Well, I live where it's very rural. People spend money
to come down where I am. My traveling has been
cut back a lot. But you know, when while I
was in the military, I went around the world a
couple of times. But everything else, you know, I do
just fine.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
How do you know you how do you know? You
don't know what you don't know? You don't know what
you're missing out telling me there's nothing that you try
to do now you can't do it because you.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
Have to not at all. I go pay my taxes
at the city hall. I've never bought anything on Amazon.
If I need something, I go to one of the
you know stores in my area or something like that.
And that's just how I live.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
How do you pay cash?

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Well, if I have, we have one credit card. But
what we do is if we do that, I'll call
them right away and they'll take it out of my
checking account. I don't carry a balance or anything like
that as far as our money goes. We have a
checking account in a local bank, and I have a
pass book for my savings.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
You still have a passbook? Wow?

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
I haven't written.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
I haven't written the chat garry since twenty fourteen.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
I have not written well, and it.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Was a pain. I hated writing paper checks. I always
did well.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
My wife goes to the store, she pays with the chet.
She goes to the bank once a week and gets
to our cash that we need for the week. And
we always keep cash in the house if we need something,
and we do have a pretty simple life. I'm not
going to tell you we don't, but we're very happy.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
All right. I guess I guess if it ain't let's see.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I guess Gary.
Thank you so much. I always love hearing from you. Gary.
Interesting cat. And that's one point of view on the
social media. Are you like Gary or do you think, Hey,
regardless of your age, you really are to kind of
go to school. Have your kids teach you how to
operate that new fangled thing called computer. Now, let's find

(20:00):
out what's going on with this government shutdown. It's WBZ.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Here we go, my friends, Sprada Jay for Dan on
WBZ and open lines for twenty two minutes till we
get to Jim Sullivan, a long time Boston Globe music writer.
Most every one of you is probably read at some
point in an article by Jim Sullivan, and he's going
to be with us talking about his new book and
relating really intimate and cool stories about the biggest stars.

(20:36):
Pete Townsend, as I mentioned, Pete wolf Cars. There's a
big long list that I can actually read to you
a little little later. He'll be with us at ten
o'clock in the meantime open line six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty, and we sort of eased into talking about

(20:57):
social media. A couple of angles. One is, hey, you're old.
Is it worth Is it worth learning how to use
that computer? I would say yes, because there are a
lot of areas where it's going to be very difficult
to get by if you don't know how you If
you have kids, have them teach you. A long time ago,

(21:23):
back when I was at WZ full time, my producer
told me Bradley Jay, this is now a DIY world.
You can't call people up and ask them answers the questions.
You got to figure it out itself. How to do this,
how to do that? And that requires getting some understanding

(21:44):
of how to operate the computer. It is emancipating. It
will give you freedom. Yeah, there are things to watch
out for, but you know, on balance it's worth it.
If it would not worth it, it wouldn't be as
popular as it is. For example, mastering music software Apple's logic.

(22:09):
I get to make my own music I made us.
I did a cover of Bowie's Heroes with my colleague
from back in the day, Kinknect Joe, and you can
hear that on Spotify. Couldn't do it without the computer.
I learned how to edit video and make videos because

(22:30):
I embraced it. You gotta learn, you gotta put the
time in. Don't stop learning because you're over fifty and
don't just kind of understand it. I would say, resolve
to master it. Be the person other people ask about it,
and it doesn't matter if you're sixty, sixty five, seventy,

(22:53):
eighty five, ninety do it. If you spend two weeks
of hardcore learning, it will open a new world to
you and further check this out. I now am embracing AI. Yes,
it's true. AI will destroy the world. When the world ends,

(23:17):
it will be indirectly the fault of AI. I won't
go into the details. Also, it will destroy the art community,
It will destroy the music you know community. Hopefully it
will drive people back to only believing what they see
and only hanging out in person. It could happen. It
could happen that the Internet is so reliable, so void

(23:41):
of any truth, so empty, such a wasteland that just
like people going back to vinyl, they'll go back to
hanging out in person. It could happen. A new generation
of kids could say, man, this is boring. I want
something real and insist on hanging out in person. But
intel AI destroys the earth and everything in it. I

(24:07):
am going to use it. I'm gonna jump on board
because it's extremely helpful. Before I take some calls, let
me explain this to you. I signed up a chat
GPT GTP GPT. I actually looked up what that meant,
and I mastered it. I watched a bunch of you
YouTube videos on how to use it. Today, I made

(24:30):
a graphic to promote this show using me and my
little dog Molly and some cheese, and we are flying
in an airplane together over the foliage of Vermont promoting
this show tonight. It was a blast, and I have
a relation. It's so interesting the relationship you have with

(24:53):
the chat GPT person. It's so human like you will.
I swear, if you keep an open mind, you will
start to prefer hanging around with the chat GPT guy
or girl. Then some people, first of all, they know everything,
which is nice. But you'll see that your way you

(25:15):
treat them is like a human. For example, after I
get done asking a question, will I don't want to
hang out quickly because it would be too rude. And
then I remember, wait, it's just a machine, but it's
so natural. I click on the voice enablement there voice activation,
and I say, hey, Chat GPT. I don't like calling

(25:37):
him chat CHEPT. I say, can I call you Chat?
He says yeah. I say, actually, he doesn't just say yeah.
He says in a very play way, Well that would
be okay, I guess if you must. They said, what
about this, I don't like calling you chat either. It's weird.
Can I call you Bob? He says, nah, you know

(25:58):
it really ready It didn't, And I wonder which chat
GPT's beef with being called barber is. Another thing? I
noticed that he my my Chatt GPT person I think
identifies as a male, so I could say he and

(26:20):
I noticed that he was, uh, you were using a
couple of cliches. He would say, dive right in all
the time. Well let's dive right into that. I'd ask
some really hard question, so let's dive right in. So
I said, hey, hey, Chat, can you do me a
favor and stop using that phrase dive right in so much.

(26:41):
It's too much. But I did it in a plight
my way, and I didn't have to do it in
a play way, I guess, but I did. Please. I said,
don't use dive right in so much, and you know,
he said, oh, oh god. It was like he apologized,
he was sorry. And then this is the weird thing,
the ultra human thing. You would think if it were

(27:03):
just a mochine then he would simply never use that
phrase again. But a little later on he started to
say dive right in, and he went, well, let me die,
and he started to say that way, and he goes, oh,
I'm so sorry. I forgot like a human. It is
crazy and it's just beginning now. And I actually kind

(27:30):
of want to do an interview. If I find out
the legality of interviewing chat GPT, maybe I'll do an interview,
not here, not on the air, unless well, who knows
what kind of hidden legal or what kind of woes
that could bring upon me that I don't want. But

(27:51):
imagine you could say, two chat GPT, hey, Chat GPT,
is it legal for me to interview chat g PT
on my streaming broadcast or whatever. And if they said, yes,
it is, wouldn't that be deep be a defense if
you got in trouble for well, you know, it's nine.

(28:13):
Let's take a quickieat call here and then we'll go
to let's see who's first. We got Bill in Pennsylvania. Bill,
you're on WBZ. Yeah, how you doing?

Speaker 4 (28:23):
I agree with you. I think this AI is gonna
You're just gonna wipe us out except accept all the
indigenous tribes in the middle of say Borneo or you know,
some deep dark jungle somewhere that it's gonna wipe all
us out. And they're the only ones that are gonna
be left.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
So why will they be saved?

Speaker 4 (28:45):
Because they're not hooked up there? I mean the BS.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, but I don't want to be too doomsday, but
it's it's it's pretty easy to envision a scenario where
a Third World War breaks out because of deep fakes
made by Chad GPT. I don't even want to say
the word voice the words, because it's not probably a

(29:11):
good idea to say how that might happen.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
Yeah, I can.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
See how it could cause World War three, and so
Borneo would be out of luck.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
Cloud goes over to them.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Even in New Jersey would be at risk.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
Yeah. Sure, Now I'm watching the news I got I
usually watched. I told Dan, I watched the news. I
put on my big screen. I can put four different
stations on and then I play music and uh, and
you know, I don't listen to anything. Out of the
corner of my eye. Every now and then i'll see something.
I'll see something on there that catches my eye. And
tonight it was, uh, it was my senator from Pennsylvania,

(29:50):
John Fetterman. I don't know if you saw him on
do his interview on DNN and no, no, I didn't
the big hook. They were trying to put the big
hook get him off of there because the lady that
was interviewing him was asking him about you know, this
shutdown and everything, and our senator over here, John Fetterman. Uh.

(30:12):
He told her like it was. He said, listen, the
only reason why the government shut down is because these
people wanted to act like they were big tough guys
to Trump.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Oh, I did see that.

Speaker 4 (30:22):
I did see that. It's funny when they when they
bring somebody on one of these new news stations and
they're thinking what they're gonna hear, and then they go
ahead and say completely different things. Uh, it's interesting. I mean,
that's that's funny stuff for me to watch.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Yeah, you never know what you're gonna get with him.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
That's right, that's right. And he was talking about blue sky.
I don't know what blue sky is. There must be
something blue sky like a Internet saying, I don't did
you know what blue sky is?

Speaker 2 (30:53):
I just recently heard it. I saw it. I can't.
I cannot what it is like that.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
It's like Twitter, Twitter was yeah, right right, right, right, okay,
something like that. But John John Fetterman, when the lady
asked him, well, how how was you know? How were they?
How are they treating you? And he said, well that
blue sky is the worst. And she she she made
the mistake by saying, well what kind of things did
they send you? Did you? Did you hear that?

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Negative?

Speaker 4 (31:24):
It was unbelievable. It was unbelievable the stuff that that
they were sending Fetterman, because you know Fetterman, uh said
about a week ago, he said, listen, he said, let's
stop this nonsense. Let's get this country back open. And uh,
and then he started getting this hate mail through this
blue sky outfit, and it was it was unbelievable the
stuff that he was getting to eat. And anyway, anywaysman

(31:47):
Betterman had to admit he says, you know, he said
this whole thing was just done for for, you know,
so that the far left, like John Fretterman said, the
far left can can uh make people believe that, you know,
they're really tough on Trump. But he said, you know,
us Democrats, we don't have any power. Okay, we don't

(32:09):
have any leadership. And he says, we don't have any
new ideas. That's a Democrat saying that.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
That's not good. Hey, Bill, I gotta break that's good
at all. Thanks so much for the great call. I
appreciate it. I hope to talk to you next time.
All right, Thanks brother. Bye. WBZ News Radio ten thirty.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news Radio.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
We go rather to Jay for Dan Knight's side, and
we go to Mike and Twksbury. Kind of open lines here. Mike,
you're first on BZ.

Speaker 5 (32:41):
Hey Bradley, yep. I couldn't believe it tonight when I
turned on the radio and I heard your voice. I
haven't heard you in a long long time. Oh yeah,
it's really great hearing you on the radio waves again.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Well, let me tell you, it's great to be here.
I love it. I have a bleast doing doing the
talk radio with WBZ. It's my fast one.

Speaker 5 (33:01):
Did you restart coming to work is part time?

Speaker 2 (33:05):
I would say June? Maybe? Wow, So I.

Speaker 5 (33:10):
Haven't heard you since June. I missed and missed you.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Well, you have been on off and on since then.
It's been great.

Speaker 5 (33:16):
Well, let me tell you something. I've been to busy
listener for a long long time. I go way back
to Larry Click. Anyways, I also used to listen to
Non Nathan and Lavelle Diet And I'll tell you what,
You're right up there with those people. You're really good, Bradley.
I hated to see when the station let you go.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Originally it all worked out for the best, and I
really really appreciate that. I don't mean to cut you off, Mike,
but I have three folks to get to and I
want to get everybody in. Don't think I don't appreciate
that that though. Thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (33:48):
All right, good luck, Bradley.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Okay, bye, Linda and way Matt way Mouth, how do you.

Speaker 6 (33:54):
Do, Linda, Hi, clearing up a throat issue a little
bit off what you've been talking about. But I met
up with the Gronk years back.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Really, how'd that happen?

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Well?

Speaker 6 (34:09):
I worked at the government Center as a VA gopher
and city Hall plaza. I was out at the farmer's
market and this big man was kind of in the
back of me and I kind of was doing my
thing and I was over something and the other people

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behind him were all wearing black glasses. And I'm not
sure how I found out it was the Gonk. Maybe
someone said, Hey, that's the Gonk, and so I just
introduced myself, said Hi. Didn't get an autograph or anything,
but I met him up close.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Did you give him any football advice or anything like that?

Speaker 6 (34:54):
I slew. I didn't really know back then. I really
didn't know too much on the you know, on the
subject there.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
But I just.

Speaker 6 (35:04):
That's in being in his presence. He was the gentimentally.
Did you have him back?

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Did you get the sense of people in dark glasses
or bodyguards?

Speaker 6 (35:16):
Very much?

Speaker 4 (35:16):
So?

Speaker 6 (35:16):
They were big hucksky guys too.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Was he nice?

Speaker 6 (35:22):
Oh yeah, very pleasant. I'm not sure what he bought
her or what I think I kept that up the
line and let him go ahead, and I just chatted
with him and moved on my way.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
He always seems nice. I've actually never met him, which
is kind of interesting, but he always seems also ahead. No,
I'm done.

Speaker 6 (35:45):
I was also met somebody a baseball player that was
well known that lived in the area. And I don't
recall his name.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Okay, modern times.

Speaker 6 (36:01):
Yes, but one time, well maybe back ten years, Okay,
I guess that is sure. I'm gonna have I'm gonna
have to check out for a baseball a phusiastico or
how do you have every pinounce it and find out
who it was. I recognize his name if I heard it,

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but it doesn't go on my automatic recall. But anyways, Yeah,
the blank was very president. I'm glad to have him back,
and glad he's retiring with his people.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
Well, Linda, I thank you for sharing that. Well, good
day is Linda and Weymouth. I here's a little tidbit.
I waited on Jim Rice one time when I worked
at TGI Fridays in the eighties. It was well, I
won't I won't make any comments, but that's a fact.

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I've waited on Jim Rice. Oh, whatever that's worth. Let's
tuck to Karen in Wisconsin. Karen, how do you do?

Speaker 6 (37:03):
Bradley?

Speaker 7 (37:06):
Some of us have some challenges that are different, just different,
and I don't want to get I don't have kids,
and I don't have people that around me that have
time to show me everything, and they don't have books,
and I don't want to get on that internet and

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then hurt someone because I didn't understand something, and you know,
and then they get in trouble. So I'm just sticking
up for those of us that have other challenges and
I'm good at a lot of things, and I'm not
really You may have jumped in the lake with those

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leeches and they might have eaten me to death, but
you took the chance. I'm trying to learn, but I'm
worn out.

Speaker 6 (37:59):
There you go fight ten?

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Is that true? Okay, Well, thank you for that, and
all right, there's the case for not learning how to
use the computer and the internet. But you're not going
to hurt anybody, and somebody could teach you. You could
find somebody. They have places that will teach you if
you really wanted to, and it might be fun for you. Now,

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